Tens of thousands of citizens demonstrated this Sunday in Castille Square against the executive of Pedro Sanchez during a rally called by several citizen platforms during which they demanded “general elections”.
Under the motto ‘For unity, dignity, law and freedom. General elections now!’, The streets of central Madrid were colored with Spanish flags to denounce the scandals surrounding the president of the executive branch and his entourage.
The alleged cases of corruption, “colonization of institutions” or the law recently approved in the Congress of Deputies which benefits the release of ETA prisoners These are some of the points that protesters have put on the table to demand early elections.
From Plaza de Castilla in CuscoPaseo de la Castellana has been closed for more than three hours. Various familiar faces, such as Alejo Vidal-Cuadrasthe businessman Ignacio Trillo or the former prosecutor of the National Court Ignacio Gordillo They participated in a series of speeches in which they outlined the reasons why they were calling for early elections.
The demonstration was called by the Platform for a Constitutional Spainalthough several members of the PP And Voice They participated as assistants.
A few minutes before the start of the speeches which formed the backbone of the event, the Deputy Secretary for Organization of the PP, Carmen Fúnezcalled for the immediate calling of elections.
“Today we ask Sánchez to think that things will not get better from now on. Democracy and the Spanish people are the ones who can respond to the need for change. Change is absolutely unstoppable,” he said. he defended.
Furthermore, Fúnez criticized “the strategy of retrenchment that Sánchez uses in Moncloa to defend himself from an independent justice of which he is afraid.” “The government does nothing other than attack justice and persecute judges who investigate their environment,” he said. “This situation is extremely delicate and the only way to hide it is to give voice to the Spanish people,” he added.
Statements very similar to those launched by the national leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, present surrounded by Isabelle Pérez Moñinorecently appointed spokesperson for Vox in Madrid, and Jose Antonio Fustergeneral secretary of Vox Madrid.
Even if what was demanded during the demonstration was the calling of elections, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, He assured that he would support a motion of censure from the PP against the government for the immediate calling of elections, provided that there is no “cession to separatism”.
“It doesn’t matter who votes for it, but “We don’t want any type of agreement with Junts”he stressed to the media in the Plaza de Castilla, where a demonstration against the government is being convened.
However, he stressed, the party led by Alberto Nuñez Feijóo if he “renounces pacts with Sánchez in Europe” or if he “breaks any pact with the government on immigration”.
Reyes Maroto
During the demonstration, spokespersons for the opposition (PP and Vox) and the Spanish government took the opportunity to launch their slogans of the week. Although it is true that the presence of the Central Executive has been quite diluted and only Reyes Maroto, the third party within the Madrid City Hallenjoyed the event.
On the one hand, the cries of those demanding the resignation of Pedro Sanchezthat the Popular Party accused of “attacking justice and persecuting judges” and, on the other, the PSOE, which continued on the path traced this Saturday by the Minister Oscar López designating the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, as the embodiment of corruption.
“Corruption has first and last names, Isabel Diaz Ayuso“, intoned the Minister of Digital Transformation. A sentence which, this Sunday, was repeated by the leader of the Socialists at Madrid City Hall and former minister, Reyes Maroto.
Maroto was one of the few who analyzed the rally in Plaza Castilla against the Central Executive. Moreover, a parallel demonstration did so, this time against the Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida, just 11 kilometers away. In it, he joked that the PP and Vox “should have organized a demonstration at the PP headquarters, an example of corruption”.
